Uncommon Ideas to Keep the Babies Amused for Weeks
Big Foot Relay. Have the children fetch two shoeboxes with them. Magnetic Tape the lids onto the boxes, then cut a one-inch-wide and four-inch long slit in each top. Have the contestants slip their feet into the slits in the boxes and race.
Batty Bowling. Obtain a bit of mad or odd tokens that can be bumped over by a ball, much as a plastic milk carton, a candlestick, a stand-up dolly, a plastic vase of blooms, a pizza box, a tower of blank cans, an umbrella stand, an empty oatmeal container, and a book. Line them up like bowling pins and let the bowlers try to tap them over with volleyballs, tennis balls, or golf balls.
Pick Pocket Tag. Put a strip of cloth in each player’s back pocket. Have the players try to grab each other’s strips without having their own strip taken. The player with the most cloth strips wins the game.
Blind Snakes. Set up a number of sprinklers in between a starting line and a finish line. Have the kids try to run from one end to the other without getting sprayed. Have one of the kids command the faucet, turning it on and off at random. Award ribbons to the nippers who play the thriftiest without getting wet.
